Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“spirituous, liquor”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 790 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“spirituous, liquor”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
सौर · adj
सूर्य संबंधी । सूर्य का · सूर्य से उत्पन्न · सूर्य के निमित्त अर्पित (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
सौर · noun · masculine
सूर्य के पुत्र, शनि · वह जो सूर्य का पूजक या उपासक हो । सूर्य का भक्त · बीसवें कल्प का नाम — Śabdasāgara
सौर
solar, pertaining to the sun
Platts (p. 696) also records: A kind of fish
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi सौर — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit सौर (saura).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. saura mfn. (fr. surā) consisting of spirituous liquor, ŚrS.
2. saura mf(ī)n. (fr. 1. sūra and sūrya; in some meanings perhaps fr. sura) relating or belonging or sacred to or coming from &c. the sun or the god Sūrya, solar, MaitrUp.; MBh. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a solar day (while the sun is in one degree of the ecliptic), a solar month (consisting of 30 risings and setting of the sun or the period during which the sun is in one sign of th…
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
1. saura mfn. (fr. surā) consisting of spirituous liquor, ŚrS.
2. saura mf(ī)n. (fr. 1. sūra and sūrya; in some meanings perhaps fr. sura) relating or belonging or sacred to or coming from &c. the sun or the god Sūrya, solar, MaitrUp.; MBh. &c.
celestial, divine, W.
saura m. a worshipper of the sun, MBh.; Prab. (RTL. 342)
‘son of the Sun’, N. of the planet Saturn, VarBṛS.
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